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Website Launch: ThemeFurnace WordPress Themes

Oli — Tue, 01 May 2012 14:38:36 +0000

Im pleased to announce the launch of my latest website – ThemeFurnace, a new provider of Premium WordPress Themes.

There are 4 themes available at the moment at a cost of $49, I also offer a developer club membership which is $99 per year and includes all the launch themes + every theme added over the next 12 months. That is guaranteed to be a minimum of one a month, although Im aiming to add more than this.

Visit ThemeFurnace »

You can use coupon code 30D5B4F4 for 40% discount – Expires this Sunday 6th May.

Free WordPress theme release: Photum

Oli — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:39:37 +0000

Yesterday saw the release of my second free WordPress theme: This one is called Photum and is an HTML5 responsive theme for photographers.

View an Online Demo Here »
Download The Theme (699KB) »

Plugin Launch: WP AdCenter

Oli — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:49:39 +0000

Im pleased to finally announce the launch of our latest WordPress plugin : WP AdCenter. WP Ad Center is a complete advertising management plugin that allows you to control ad-space on any WordPress-powered site. You can use it to manage affiliate banners, google adsense, any other advertising network and also allow private advertisers to buy ad-space directly on your site and pay you via Paypal, automating the whole process for you.

I wrote an overview of the plugin over on WPLift which also includes a 20% discount coupon code.

Check it out here »

Social Media Icon Pack Updated

Oli — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:29:20 +0000

Today I updated my Social Media Icons pack with a few more icons, I Added :

500px
About.me
Stack Overflow
Instagram
HTML5
CSS3
Indenti.ca

Head over to WPLift to download them all for free.

Introducing ThemeFurnace, A WordPress Theme Shop

Oli — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:01:51 +0000

Yesterday I put up a holding page for my latest project: ThemeFurnace, which is taking signups for the launch mailing list – if you signup, you will also receive discount codes when it goes live. I’m really excited about this project – I have been planning it for over a year now. The site will be selling high quality commercial WordPress themes backed up with great support.

If you are an amazing WordPress theme designer or developer and would like to work with us, please get in touch with your portfolio details.

New Blog Launch: PhotographicBlog.com

Oli — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:30:10 +0000

I’m pleased to announce the launch of our latest website within Kooc Media, Photographic Blog. This site is a joint venture between myself and a friend – Tony Webber who is an amazing Photographer.

As you can see from the site, it is very new – we have just 6 posts so far on there but are working hard on a few more at the moment. We intend to slowly grow this into one of the largest and friendliest Photography Communities online. Once traffic levels reach suitable levels, we will be expanding the site to include forums and Photo hosting for it’s members.

I wrote a short piece over on WPLift about building the site and will be revisiting this every 3 months or so, so people who are interested can see the growth of the site and what we did to achieve it.

If you are interested in Photography, head over and grab the RSS Feed and our Twitter Feed.

WPLift iPhone app release

Oli — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:09:40 +0000

I just released an iPhone app into the App Store for WPLift.com. The app is basically a mobile version of the site in a slick interface that allows you to read and comment on all the posts and keep a record of your favourites.

Head over to WPLift to see the announcement or grab the app from the App Store.

Free WordPress theme release: Busby

Oli — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:52:24 +0000

Today I released my first free WordPress theme into the wild over on WPLift, the theme is called “Busby” after the great Sir Matt Busby. I have been working on this theme on and off for a while now so it’s good to finally get it out there. No doubt I will have to do some bug fixes as there is only so much testing you can do yourself.

This is the first of a few themes I’m planning to release – Im allready well into the design of my second one which will be a portfolio / image gallery style theme.

Moving my life to the cloud

Oli — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:29:18 +0000

The plan next year for my girlfriend and I is to move to somewhere in Spain, we have both had enough of England for now, so we’re going to try a warmer climate for 6 months and see how it goes. While I was out for my run today I started thinking about what to do with all my “stuff” – I have a big DVD collection, Photos, Books etc – I stopped buying physical music a long time ago but still have some CDs, a set of 1210s and a vinyl collection. I have stopped downloading music and now stream everything using Last.fm and Spotify so I think it’s time I did the same with the other physical posessions I own.

The plan is to either retain digital copies of everything and store it in the cloud or find a service which makes it redundant. Its going to be quite a long process I think but I believe it’s time to move on from owning large amounts of physical possessions – do I really need albums of photos taking up space when I can scan them and keep in my Flickr or Amazon S3 account ?

There are some things I will need to put into storage – business accounts, as its a legal requirement to keep copies of receipts etc (for 3 years I think?).

Posessions I need to keep are :

Clothes
Computing Equipment
Sporting Equipment ( I play tennis / footbal/ / badminton and go running)

Everything else can go on eBay or to charity. I will document any online services I find along the way to help with this process – if anyone has recommendations for apps / services to try out, please let me know …

Need some up to date Social Media icons ?

Oli — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:00:05 +0000

A while ago I made some 32px Social Media icons and released them on WPLift for free download. After a request on Twitter today, I have updated them to include Google +, Plancast and Github. You can re-download the zip to get the updated icons.

If anyone else has requests for additions to this set, just let me know and I’ll do my best to add them.